Problems installing Beta 2

[Mike W]

Hi I just tried to install the Vista Beta 2 on my laptop, but I get a blue
screen when the installation starts.

The error says: The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please
contact
your system vendor for an updated BIOS.

Specs: Asus W3451NUP (W3N series)
Pentium M 735 1.7 GHz
Intel 855PM chipset
Radeon 9700
1 GB memory
80 GB harddrive

I have the latest bios from Asus...

Can someone help me?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Download and run the Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor beta
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

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Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
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| Hi I just tried to install the Vista Beta 2 on my laptop, but I get a blue
| screen when the installation starts.
|
| The error says: The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please
| contact
| your system vendor for an updated BIOS.
|
| Specs: Asus W3451NUP (W3N series)
| Pentium M 735 1.7 GHz
| Intel 855PM chipset
| Radeon 9700
| 1 GB memory
| 80 GB harddrive
|
| I have the latest bios from Asus...
|
| Can someone help me?

 

[Guest]

I Have this problem, please help

 

[Mike W]

I tried that, it reports no problems (other than my video card only has 64MB
and needs 128MB)

 

[Guest]

Sounds to me like you both may need to either upgrade your current BIOS
version and/or disable ACPI power managment in the BIOS.

 

[Guest]

Mmmm i have a notebook toshiba M35X-SP171(Mexican), excuseme for my bad
english, and i can`t update my bios.

Celeron M 1.3Ghz
512Mb Ram
40Gb HD
Intel 855GM Video Card 32Mb
Windows XP Home Edition SP2

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem installing on my gateway laptop, I checked the
upgrade advisor and everything was fine, and according to XP I am running an
ACPI uniprocessor computer, the bios is the latest version from Gateway, but
still no luck, tried many things but still get that bluescreen

 

[Guest]

Same problem here on a Gateway Notebook. Upgrade advisor said everything was
okay and made it throught to the first reboot and got the same ACPI error.
Tried Upgrade and Clean install. No luck. According to Gateway I have the
most current BIOS and am fully ACPI compliant no matter what VISTA says. Too
bad. I can't believe no one from MS has addressed this issue. I am kind of
dissapointed at the lack of response. There should be some kind of patch
available to fix this. Unfortunately I ordered the DVD and looks like it is
now a waste of money.

 

[Guest]

Same problem here on a Gateway Notebook. Upgrade advisor said everything was
okay and made it throught to the first reboot and got the same ACPI error.
Tried Upgrade and Clean install. No luck. According to Gateway I have the
most current BIOS and am fully ACPI compliant no matter what VISTA says. Too
bad. I can't believe no one from MS has addressed this issue. I am kind of
dissapointed at the lack of response. There should be some kind of patch
available to fix this. Unfortunately I ordered the DVD and looks like it is
now a waste of money.

 

[Guest]

Hi I just tried to install the Vista Beta 2 on my laptop, but I get a blue
screen when the installation starts.

The error says: The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please
contact
your system vendor for an updated BIOS.

Specs: Asus W3451NUP (W3N series)
Pentium M 735 1.7 GHz
Intel 855PM chipset
Radeon 9700
1 GB memory
80 GB harddrive

I have the latest bios from Asus...

Can someone help me?

 

[Guest]

Same problem here on a Gateway Notebook. Upgrade advisor said everything was
okay and made it throught to the first reboot and got the same ACPI error.
Tried Upgrade and Clean install. No luck. According to Gateway I have the
most current BIOS and am fully ACPI compliant no matter what VISTA says. Too
bad. I can't believe no one from MS has addressed this issue. I am kind of
dissapointed at the lack of response. There should be some kind of patch
available to fix this. Unfortunately I ordered the DVD and looks like it is
now a waste of money.

 

[Guest]

good thing I didn't order the dvd, just the download, I tried many fixes that
I could find on the net but no luck unfortunatly, nothing seems to work to
get Vista to install on a Gateway Notebook, guess Microsoft is going to be
losing customers using gateway for this new version if they can't fix this
issue

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately this does not solve the problem on my computer.